After an upgrade of our system I receive the following error message
(openmpi 1.4.2 with gridengine):

quote

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Sorry! You were supposed to get help about:
orte-odls-default:execv-error
But I couldn't open the help file:
...path/1.4.2/share/openmpi/help-odls-default.txt: Cannot send after
transport endpoint shut
down. Sorry!

end quote

and this is this is the section in the text file
...path/1.4.2/share/openmpi/help-odls-default.txt that refers to
orte-odls-default:execv-error

quote

[orte-odls-default:execv-error]
Could not execute the executable "%s": %s
This could mean that your PATH or executable name is wrong, or that you
do not
have the necessary permissions. Please ensure that the executable is
able to be
found and executed."

end quote

Does the execv-error mean that the file
...path/1.4.2/share/openmpi/help-odls-default.txt was not accessible or
is there a different reason?

No, it thinks it cannot find some executable that was requested to
run. Do you have the exact mpirun command line that was trying to
be ran? Can you first try and run without gridengine?

The error message continues with

quote

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[cn004:00591] mca: base: component_find: unable to open
...path/1.4.2/lib/openmpi/mca_grpcomm_basic: file not found (ignored)
[cn004:00586] mca: base: component_find: unable to open
...path/1.4.2/lib/openmpi/mca_notifier_syslog: file not found (ignored)
[cn004:00585] mca: base: component_find: unable to open
...path/1.4.2/lib/openmpi/mca_notifier_syslog: file not found (ignored)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
Sorry! You were supposed to get help about:
find-available:none-found
But I couldn't open the help file:
...path/1.4.2/share/openmpi/help-mca-base.txt: Cannot send after
transport endpoint shutdown
. Sorry!
------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
[cn004:00586] PML ob1 cannot be selected

end quote

but there are .so and .la libraries in the directory
...path/1.4.2/lib/openmpi
Are those the ones not found?

I've seen this when either OPAL_PREFIX or LD_LIBRARY_PATH not being
set up correctly.